Chapter 235

Of course, the secret of the Green God system cannot be told to Baker.

Jiang Xiaolin could only say to Baker: "Emotion is a factor, mainly because I don't have any important and weighty championship honors now, and I am afraid that I will not get much attention even if I go to the top five leagues. I personally think that I should win a few championship honors in the Eredivisie first, so that I will have the confidence to go to the top five leagues."

"Of course, the emotional factor is also indispensable. We Chinese people value emotions. I hope you can understand this."

Baker was so angry that he couldn't speak on the other end of the phone. Finally, he said:

"After you attend the club dinner tomorrow, stay in the rental house. Don't leave. I will come to the rental house to talk to you in detail."

Obviously, Baker felt that he couldn't explain it clearly on the phone, and he had to convince Jiang Xiaolin in person.

On the second day, May 12, the Dutch media reported the second round of the UEFA Cup play-off final, and praised Jiang Xiaolin's last-second shot to kill Nijmegen, which once again pushed Jiang Xiaolin's popularity to a peak, making Alkmaar fans happy that the team had qualified for the UEFA Cup, but also worried about losing Jiang Xiaolin next season.

Amid the outside world's disturbances, Jiang Xiaolin and all the coaches and teammates of Alkmaar's first team gathered in a cooperative hotel near the club, and the club arranged a season-end dinner.

If Jiang Xiaolin no longer stays in Alkmaar next season, this may be the last time Jiang Xiaolin has a group dinner with everyone.

Therefore, at this dinner, many players who thought they had a good relationship with Jiang Xiaolin came up and said a few words to him.

General Manager Anselm also found an opportunity to pull Jiang Xiaolin aside and directly asked Jiang Xiaolin if he meant to stay.

Jiang Xiaolin naturally couldn't tell the general manager directly that he had to stay in Alkmaar. He pushed everything to his agent Beck, saying that the club would have to negotiate and discuss with his agent.

Anselm was slightly disappointed. He thought that Jiang Xiaolin's kissing the team badge after the game meant that he wanted to stay in the team, but he didn't expect it was just to express his gratitude to the fans.

Whether Anselm was disappointed or not, Jiang Xiaolin would never tell him anything.

He had feelings for Van Gaal and Alkmaar's teammates and fans, but that didn't mean he had feelings for the club, or was willing to be looked down upon by the club.

It was okay for him to stay in Alkmaar for a season, but Alkmaar had to give him an annual salary and bonus that was worthy of his worth, as well as signing fees, advertising endorsement shares, etc.

After the dinner, even if Alkmaar finished all the games this season, the players who should take a vacation took a vacation, and those who should return to the national team returned to the national team, and the training base of Alkmaar's first team fell silent.

That afternoon, Jiang Xiaolin's agent Baker rushed to Jiang Xiaolin's rental house and had a long discussion with Jiang Xiaolin about whether to stay or leave next season.

Although Baker tried his best to explain to Jiang Xiaolin the benefits of playing in the top five leagues and the Champions League, no matter what he said, Jiang Xiaolin remained unshakable and determined to stay in Alkmaar next season.

However, Jiang Xiaolin also told Baker that he did not show his desire to stay in the team in front of his teammates and club officials. Baker could use this to ask the club for higher signing fees, annual salaries, bonuses, and advertising endorsement shares.

This made Baker a little confused.

Say Jiang Xiaolin doesn't love Alkmaar, he insists on staying to help Alkmaar win the Eredivisie championship.

Say he loves Alkmaar, but he concealed his true thoughts from the club and told Baker to get as many benefits as possible through negotiations.

Baker couldn't understand what Jiang Xiaolin was thinking.

However, seeing that Jiang Xiaolin had made up his mind and was unshakable, Baker had no choice but to agree with Jiang Xiaolin's decision.

But from the perspective of a professional agent, Baker was still able to base his negotiation on Jiang Xiaolin's opinion and then formulate a better negotiation strategy.

Obviously, this is not a good time to negotiate, because Jiang Xiaolin's Beijing Olympics has not yet started.

Moreover, Jiang Xiaolin told Baker that he had communicated with the head coach of the Chinese national team, and he would participate in the next national team training, and then they would play together in the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian region.

Although the Chinese attach great importance to the Olympics, in fact, in the football world, the World Cup qualifiers are a higher level competition than the Olympics.

The football match in the Olympics is at the U23 level,It belongs to the category of youth team competition, not international A-level competition at all. FIFA will not count the Olympic results when calculating the points of national teams.

The World Cup qualifiers are different. This is a very formal and very important international A-level competition. It is related to the future of whether the national teams of various countries can qualify for the World Cup. It is also very popular and has greater value.

Therefore, Baker told Jiang Xiaolin that if he insisted on staying in Alkmaar, then they had to delay it now and let Jiang Xiaolin participate in the top 20 group matches of the Asian qualifiers of the World Cup and the Beijing Olympics in August.

In the two competitions of the World Cup qualifiers and the Olympics, Jiang Xiaolin must do his best to show himself, get more goals and higher popularity, so as to attract more interest from the top five league teams in him and create greater momentum.

In this way, Baker will have the confidence to gain greater initiative in the negotiations with Alkmaar and strive for more benefits for Jiang Xiaolin.

Jiang Xiaolin approved Baker's arrangement. He will no longer communicate privately with the officials of the Alkmaar club. Everything will be discussed after the World Cup qualifiers and the Olympics.

By then, Jiang Xiaolin's fame and value will soar even more.

In addition to discussing the contract renewal, Baker also had another thing to do with Jiang Xiaolin, which was two advertising endorsements in the Netherlands.

Jiang Xiaolin is now the hottest young player in Dutch football, with a high exposure rate, so it is natural that he is pursued by brands.

However, Baker has high standards, and he doesn't like contracts like the supermarket endorsement signed by Jiang Xiaolin and Song Zhicheng before.

Before the end of Jiang Xiaolin's UEFA Cup play-offs, Baker had already helped Jiang Xiaolin find several good endorsements.

However, these are all endorsements chosen based on the fact that Jiang Xiaolin will leave the Eredivisie next season. Some big brands that are interested in Jiang Xiaolin feel that they are not very interested in Jiang Xiaolin after he leaves the Eredivisie next season.

After all, Jiang Xiaolin is not Dutch, and as long as he leaves the Eredivisie, he will have little to do with Dutch football, and it will not help much with brand promotion in the Netherlands.

Therefore, Baker only helped Jiang Xiaolin find two endorsements that did not care about Jiang Xiaolin's next season.

In addition, those big brands that were originally interested can wait until Jiang Xiaolin participates in the Olympics, renews his contract with Alkmaar, and confirms that he will stay in the Eredivisie before restarting the negotiations.

Baker explained the details and intention contracts of the two endorsements to Jiang Xiaolin in detail. After Jiang Xiaolin said it was meaningless, Jiang Xiaolin and Baker rushed to the headquarters of the other brand to sign the contract the next day and received a large amount of endorsement fees.

Jiang Xiaolin's current price is naturally no longer 100,000 euros a year, but much higher.

In the next two days, Jiang Xiaolin followed the contract and stayed in the Netherlands to help the other party shoot advertising photos and videos. Then on the afternoon of May 14, he accepted an exclusive interview with the Dutch "International Football" newspaper and returned to China on the morning of May 15.

When Jiang Xiaolin was on the plane, the Chinese Football Committee announced the latest list of the Chinese national team.

Jiang Xiaolin, who has been long awaited by fans across the country, finally got his wish and appeared on the list of this national team training.

This national team training will start on May 19 and end on June 23.

During this period, the national football team will play 5 games, including one warm-up match and four World Cup qualifiers.

The four World Cup qualifiers for the top 20 group matches are life-and-death battles for the national football team, and all four World Cup qualifiers are concentrated in June.

It can be said that only one month in June can determine whether the Chinese national team can advance to the final top ten of the World Cup qualifiers in Asia.

In the group stage of the top 20 of the World Cup qualifiers in Asia, the Chinese team was divided into Group A with Australia, Iraq and Qatar.

In the previous two group matches, the Chinese team drew 1-1 with Iraq away and 0-0 with Australia at home, and only got 2 points, ranking third in the group.

In this group, Australia currently ranks first with one win and one draw and 4 points, Qatar ranks second with one win and one loss and 3 points, China ranks third with two draws and 2 points, and Iraq ranks fourth with one draw and one loss and 1 point.

In the next four games, China must enter the top two of the group to advance to the top ten.

Before Jiang Xiaolin appeared, the Chinese Football Committee had planned to give up the World Cup qualifiers and focus on the Olympics.

But after Jiang Xiaolin came out of nowhere, the Football Committee's mindset was naturally different.

If you can achieve results in the Olympics and advance to the top ten in the World Cup qualifiers, that would be good.

Even if you can make it out of the top ten in the World Cup qualifiers and advance to the 2010 South Africa World Cup,That is a great achievement. Olympic football matches cannot be compared with the World Cup.

Therefore, in the list of the national football training camp, except for Shao Jiayi's injury, the Football Committee basically gathered all the elite players from China and abroad, and the intention to advance to the top ten is very obvious.

Of course, the media and fans don't care about the Football Committee's political achievements. They only care about Jiang Xiaolin.

As long as Jiang Xiaolin appears on the training list, it proves that there is still hope for the World Cup qualifiers.